The West Coast Logging Legacy

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  • @jsullivan9238
    @jsullivan9238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    After the first Gulf War I was sent to the inactive ready reserves. Being a brand new Father and living in Montana, I had to do something. I got into logging. Started as a choker-setter, then worked my way through every job on the site. Running a 70 foot West Coast Yarder Tower rig was the ultimate in little boy toy fun!
    I was in my early 40s at the time and running up and down the hill with 19-21 year olds sure made this old man tough in a hurry.
    I miss it greatly.
    Thanks for a nice history of logging!

    • @tracymesser296
      @tracymesser296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank You For Your Service Sir.

    • @endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
      @endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a bunch of SULLIVANS IN S.E. ALASKA. RUSS AND FAMILIES WERE AT HOONAH, NOW HEAR THEY ARE NEAR ANCHORAGE. ALASKA FOREST ASSN. 111 STEADMAN STREET. KETCHIKAN. SAY HI TO STRECH CHATHAM, and all the gang.

  • @sc44dk
    @sc44dk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I’ve done a lot of physical work but can’t really comprehend how hard modern logging must be. After watching this I’m well aware of just how easy my life has been. A wonderful documentary, thank you.

    • @endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568
      @endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Really isn't all that hard if one just sticks with it and learns from the experienced men. THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPECT.
      After over 6 yrs of college with many educated dummies like WE ALL CAN BE, the dummies have put us out of jobs and retirements as well.
      DON'T WORRY, WE KNOW GOD FROM IT ALL, TEACHING,Welding, ranching and whatever, fishing and road building.
      Poverty has brought in a lot of drugs. Thanks ❤ for the respect.

    • @toddski4178
      @toddski4178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      modern logging is sitting in a comfy climate controlled cab listening to slayer while practicing wholesale slaughter on the forests to make a bunch of shareholders rich... easy peasy....

    • @SiViC74
      @SiViC74 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nobody cares

  • @deecooper1567
    @deecooper1567 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This just came up on my feed & since my Dad was in the early logging industry, I had to watch. As a young girl I was allowed to go with my father to certain locations but stayed in the truck to watch. He did many aspects of logging from felling to drive to the mills. I remember the spikes on the boots, rope around a tree to hall yourself up & certain words in this video bring back memories of this time period. Many good childhood memories .
    Thank you for showing this piece of history 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

  • @caroljohnson8193
    @caroljohnson8193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I have been looking for something like this for a long time. Thank you! I'm writing my birth grandmother's story - she was born in Salmon River where her father worked as a logger. This film has given be such wonderful detail and also has filled my heart with adoration for the men and women of the early logging industry. Many good wishes for today's loggers and for a future that includes sustainable logging.

  • @JoeSmith-zg7in
    @JoeSmith-zg7in 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    There was a 5th or 6th son of royal Swedish lineage who saw he was never going to be king so in 1860 he came to Washington and built a cabin next to a spring on a high hill.he was a logging company owner during first generation logging operations in the area of Issaquah fall city Snoqualmie. Before he and his wife passed they showed up with a convoy of cars to see the old cabin one last time .The man and his wife were very old and very nice,very thankful to see The old cabin still standing.

  • @martincherniske7214
    @martincherniske7214 11 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    This is certainly extrodanary footage of the early days of logging on the West coast. I never realized so much live footage from that early era existed. I've had a close interest and relationship in forestry all my life and have many old time logging books but never saw this type of live film footage before. This was a real treat. Thanks.

  • @wallacecraven
    @wallacecraven ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been logging for 46 years now. It has changed so much in my time. Gator

  • @dianemp6308
    @dianemp6308 10 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    My dad and his brother started logging in the misery-whip days in southern Oregon. Maybe there were newer methods in the '30s, but they wouldn't have been able to afford anything better. I grew up listening to my grandfather and dad talking logging and it was always a special treat to go out to the woods with one of them. I can still hear the growling, clanking Cat and smell the machine grease, damp dirt and fresh wood. Those men had a shocking amount of brute strength and stamina. I don't know how they did it. We all knew it was a dangerous job. I remember the night he came home, sometime in the 1950s, and said a man was killed in the woods that day. He was obviously shaken, something my brothers and I had never seen him be. It was a somber dinner at our house. Logging took a physical toll on my father and I suppose on most, but thank goodness he moved on to another successful career in 1961. I thoroughly enjoyed this fantastic documentary, thanks to all who worked on it.

    • @groovy_bear
      @groovy_bear 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I can very much relate to that as my grand father, great grand father etc. were also loggers and sawyers !

    • @zorroonmilkavitch1840
      @zorroonmilkavitch1840 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Something tells me you are either in the writing business or you should be in the writing business.

  • @jamesbooher8505
    @jamesbooher8505 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My family were mostly farmers and loggers. My grandfather was a high climber and tree rigger. He was crushed by a rolling log on a landing near Powers, OR back in 1945 . My father and his twin brother drove log trucks for Cos Bay Lumber Company in the '40's and part of the '50's. My father then bought his own truck and hauled logs as a gyppo until the late 60's. On my vacations from school I rode with him in his truck on many a trip in SW Oregon and developed a love for the woods and logging processes. He worked many hours of the day from dark mornings to dark nights and the hard work on rough roads took its toll on him. I attended Oregon State University majoring in what else but Forest Engineering and Management, graduating in 1966. After 33 plus years I retired comfortably in 1999 from Weyerhaeuser Company. I still find these old pictures interesting and am in awe of these early loggers who never had to contend with the modern know-nothing environmental groups and governmental agencies that have no interest in the plight of workers but only in advancing their own agendas at everybody's expense.

    • @EdithMildred
      @EdithMildred 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Booher if you hate democracy that much you can go elsewhere. Or you can vote to give all public lands back to this kind of free enterprise and allow someone else to profit and charge us for access all the same. People like you talk like government isn't just another business in the profit competition and that it isn't somewhat guided by the democratic voice of the shareholders (citizens). Why do you hate competition and citizen input? Where does that leave your idea of America these days?

    • @turningpoint6643
      @turningpoint6643 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Extremely well put James. I worked in a logging camp at the far end of the Dean River Inlet, Kimsquit B.C. and got to talk to a lot of people in forest management and bear biologists, not a single person in those environmental groups will tell the truth if it doesn't somehow match there idea of reality and there own personal agendas. Far too many jobs have been lost simply due to false and made up B.S.

    • @arnenelson4495
      @arnenelson4495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In regard to liberals/environmental wackos- "You cannot enlighten the unconscious".

    • @jacquelinetaylor9447
      @jacquelinetaylor9447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With deepest sympathy and respect for your grandfather’s passing in such a tragedy. Thank you so very kindly for sharing your family and your legacy with all of us! God Bless!

    • @DavidHarrison-x2r4eyes
      @DavidHarrison-x2r4eyes หลายเดือนก่อน

      If I had a quarter for everytime somebody told me I didn't know nothing about what I done every day for thirty five years I wouldn't be rich but I'd have gnarled fists from clocking every damn one of em . Enjoy your retirement James . The more things change....

  • @rodgiles4405
    @rodgiles4405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    at 3:08, the fellow on the far right is Matthias Hammer, my great grandfather, a Norwegian colonist in Bella Coola.

    • @jacquelinetaylor9447
      @jacquelinetaylor9447 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so very kindly for sharing the location in this video of your Great grandfather, Matthias Hammer. God bless you, your beloved, and his legacy!

  • @Keirfey
    @Keirfey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My commentary would have been vastly different. Thank you for the walk through history in America. ❤ It gave me visuals for what I already knew.

  • @meray56
    @meray56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I was raised in a small drinking community with a logging problem Half Moon Montana

  • @lucmarchand617
    @lucmarchand617 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Logging industries come long way from 1929 to today..the market change a lot.thank you video

  • @bookbeing
    @bookbeing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What a great presentation!! My great grandmother ran a logging camp near Johnsondale. Before this she was a switch line operator on the railroad working in Oregon and washington. She left a daily journal and a stack of photos. This video is inspiring. I need to get her materials together and share.

  • @chrishayman1747
    @chrishayman1747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for a great documentary from a logging family in Queensland Australia

  • @slimgrowden
    @slimgrowden 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Many of the photos in the beginning our pictures taken from my great great Uncle Darious Kinsey! He was a photographer For many of the logging camps in Western Washington! But his family and ancestors of mine all settled in Snoqualmie! Including my greatgrandmother Maxine Kinsey! There pictures of the hotel and Feed and Mercantile shop they owned and operated! At the Snoqualmie train depot. My Great grandmother is it one of the pictures as little baby! Love the video and the sap runs through my vanes! As the men that are in this video! Our mechanized technology as made it much easier for us than it was for them all of those years ago! Cheers to the great men of the woods! Hat's off to the women and there family's. That had loved the hard men that had and have such a difficult dangerous jobs such as this! Thank you God bless!

    • @jimhere1
      @jimhere1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have a book of Darius and his brother Clark's old logging photographs.

    • @parkerrowe8902
      @parkerrowe8902 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I am a New Hampshire Logger and love your great great uncles book!

    • @LarrySinclair-m6v
      @LarrySinclair-m6v 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have a 320 page book mostly about Sedrick-Woolley , it has awesome pictures by Darius Kinsey

    • @slimgrowden
      @slimgrowden 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LarrySinclair-m6v Sedro, Woolley has a lot of his originals on display at the Sedor-Woolly history museum in Washington state.

  • @johnallen2771
    @johnallen2771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I live in Red Bluff, Ca, and we still have logging going today, although not much. They log the mountains and haul the logs down by truck. There used to be a 21 mile long slough that was built like a train trestle, about 70 feet high, and water poured through it so they could float the logs down. It's quite a sight in pictures. I also lived in Eureka, CA, and that's where all the redwoods are. The history of logging with those huge trees was somewhat different than cutting down sequoias or pine. The redwoods have been preserved now and there is no more cutting of them. They are beautiful to walk through.

    • @arnenelson4495
      @arnenelson4495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sounds like the Terry Co. flume- they also used a steam engine on the valley floor along what is now Deschutes Rd. Engine was the J.G. Kellog. Legend has it that it fell in the Sacramento river on the south side where they transferred it to a barge to cross the river- supposedly it's still there. The builders of the current bridge sed they saw part of it (in the 60's, I believe).

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      @endicotttrucktractorrwolfe5568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @quercus4730
    @quercus4730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My dad worked as a logger in Arkansas in the late 40's, Oregon in the 50's and Missouri in the 60's ,70's and 80's had a little saw mill the last 20 yrs. Sawed lumber for a barn pattern the day he died. Sawdust sure brings back memories.

    • @MrThenry1988
      @MrThenry1988 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Saw dust. Good ol man glitter

  • @craftylydia
    @craftylydia 11 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    one of the best things I have ever seen on youtube! thank you!

  • @whaleshrimp111
    @whaleshrimp111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I worked 2 winters helicopter logging up 4th of July Creek about 20 miles north of Salmon Idaho in the 1970's. Luck had me in it's sights! The saw boss turned out to be Curly the legendary faller of the 1950's and 60's. He was straight out of your documentary and I am darn glad I got to work with him. One tough man who knew right from wrong and loved to laugh or punch you in the nose, either way he was going to have a good time.

  • @MrDewglass
    @MrDewglass 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Well done! Brings back memories of the men & machines I witnessed growing up as the son of a PNW logger.

  • @Unreadylearner0
    @Unreadylearner0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You did brilliant on this if you ask me I enjoyed it very much for showing me a perfect picture of history Have a Good Day my friend

  • @watsonrk1
    @watsonrk1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you walk the woods today, in the right places, you can still see stumps with spring board holes cut into them.
    My father was a faller and I actually watched the last log drive in this country, Lewiston ID where I grew up. The dam on the North Fork of the Clearwater killed the log drives, was a sight to see! Hard work, made you tough, killed many people...

  • @denassdidu
    @denassdidu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you for a Great time in history.

  • @PlummyVideos
    @PlummyVideos 12 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    In this presentation the narrator said a fellow went out of business when he lost is donkey in a poker game in Squamish well my two grandfathers (Fidele Laviolette and Amide Levesque)won a donkey in a poker game about that very time in Squamish and that is how they started logging. I have two cousins on the Levesque side still living in Squamish.

    • @abelpadilla7789
      @abelpadilla7789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Paul Laviolette That’s Awesome my friend it’s a big part of history.

    • @GottliebGoltz
      @GottliebGoltz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Small world.

    • @galacticwizard5442
      @galacticwizard5442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Gottlieb Goltz smaller back then!

    • @southoripper
      @southoripper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'll see your hundred.. and raise you a STEAM DONKEY haha!

    • @kevinvesa1315
      @kevinvesa1315 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@abelpadilla7789 8⁸!6?

  • @MW-eb1qh
    @MW-eb1qh 8 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    My dad and both his brothers were loggers from 1929 on. Starting in and around Columbia County, Oregon. Began cutting timber with the crosscut saw at that time. He referred to them as the old hand briar or misery whip. One uncle was killed in a logging accident during the early 40s, while my dad was overseas in the Philippines during WW2, when a block (huge pully) slipped off a yarding donkey while they were moving it, and hit him in the head. One of the guys in the pic at 1:36 looks like pics I have seen of that uncle. I'd love to know the date and location of that photo. My dad moved to Linn County Oregon after the war, moved on to chain saws and continued cutting timber primarily til the mid 70s. Though took some jobs on the rigging crew during the late 40s til early 60s from time to time. He never preferred those jobs to cutting timber though. My other uncle liked the rigging crew better, said chaser was the best job in the woods, and stayed in Columbia County til the late 50s when he moved to Northern Calif to log a few years, then on to Rodman Bay Alaska til the mid 60s, when an injury forced him to quit the woods, and work other jobs til retirement age. While my uncle worked near Eureka and then up in Alaska, my aunt, his wife, worked as a logging camp cook at the same time and places Thanks for posting this interesting video.

    • @agejohnsenjohnsen9884
      @agejohnsenjohnsen9884 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      . U

    • @davespent9084
      @davespent9084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And did ONE of them replace just one of the 1000+ year old trees that was cut they are not replaceable no matter how you look at it I live in P.N.W. the only big trees left are in people's yards not in the genetecly altered mono culture overplanted forest of today which can be cut with a 10" homelite chainsaw that's what got replaced in a forest with monster cedars and Doug firs and and and that a great thing to be proud of

    • @diane9247
      @diane9247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My grandpa, and his three sons - one of them my dad - had a similar history. In S. Oregon from Coos Bay and Brookings to Klamath County and N. Calif. down to Ukiah. Every summer mom and four kids camped in or near the logging camp and I specifically remember the camp cook (north of Bly, I think). She was a rugged, profane and beefy Polish lady. Boy-oh-boy, those breakfasts! I would love to know her story, now that I think of it!

  • @skipper9400
    @skipper9400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought my first pair of Caulk boots in 1965...I started early enough that I worked on a Sled-Mounted Yarder, and we rigged a Standing Tree, and Raised a Tree on the next setting....the Hooker found out I could hit with both hands, so I was put to spiking the Left-hand side of the wraps on the guy-line stumps, (no screwy hooks back then),..........and this is a GREAT testament to the men that actually built this country...no lumber, no building...thank the loggers, if you get a chance, yesterday, AND today ....onWard......

  • @richardgrumpywelsh2485
    @richardgrumpywelsh2485 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have watched this video several times and will probably watch it again, it is great, My grandfather had two youk of Oxen he used in the woods of northern Utah, He died in 1900

  • @MrMASSEYJONES
    @MrMASSEYJONES 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    10 out of 10 for this historic video.

  • @stevenbreon7480
    @stevenbreon7480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the old footage iM a fourth generation timberfaller from oregon love it lots of changes in years iam 55 yr old 35yrs for me still working.

  • @MissAshten
    @MissAshten 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My grandpa was one of these loggers. He started at 13 and said that's also when he picked up smoking. Back in those days you weren't given a break unless you smoked. If you were millin about without a smoke in your mouth you better get back to work. He did it for many years before enlisting in the air Force and serving in ww2. He spent the rest of his older years as a successful roofer and had tons of stamina to keep going on roofing past the younger guys

  • @davidhoral5104
    @davidhoral5104 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The 138 people who disliked this great documentary were either tree huggers or lazy millennials who have never worked a hard day in their lives! Nor do they even have a clue what it is.

    • @davidoakley3256
      @davidoakley3256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@redlaserfox3988 yep, your one of those.

    • @redlaserfox3988
      @redlaserfox3988 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidoakley3256
      I really liked this documentary, am not a Millennial and work a physically demanding job every day but thanks for assuming

    • @redlaserfox3988
      @redlaserfox3988 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@davidoakley3256
      Also, it you're not your.

    • @donaldindividual-1
      @donaldindividual-1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a retired timber faller my favorite meal was spotted owl soup, with a Vegan on the desert menu. Their snatch just tastes better.

  • @schoolsucks7277
    @schoolsucks7277 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow i loved this video! Way to know their history i showed rhis to my hubby and he loved it❤

  • @DanielBoonesloggingvideos
    @DanielBoonesloggingvideos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    what a great video thank you for taking the time to upload this.

  • @frankg3rd1
    @frankg3rd1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing video ! My commute to work just got a whole lot pleasant.

  • @towerhillbilly
    @towerhillbilly 11 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This is a first class documentary. I love the detail on the machinery and how it works. Even with steam power and crawler tractors this had to be the toughest job around...No sissies need apply...Except for the "Whistle Punk" of course. LOL

    • @Popscotch328
      @Popscotch328 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If my experiences on the Canadian oil patch are any indication, if you were a sissy when you started out, everyone would get you sorted out real quick. Either you grew a thick skin are you were through. Imagine a 17 year old kid taking that job in our day!! Sounds absurd, but so much of what determined people's behaviour in that day was necessity, and folks rose to the occasion.

    • @zorroonmilkavitch1840
      @zorroonmilkavitch1840 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @His Masters Voice hey what the man says is the way it was back in the day I mean yeah everything's politically correct today but guess how a lot of those houses that everybody lived in got built buy these tough and Rumble people I mean hey if you can take it get out of the kitchen

  • @baddog9320
    @baddog9320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the 1970s rivers were still being used to transport logs in Northern California. Logging trucks were also used. In the late 70s early 80s the mills I knew were all closed.

  • @63256325N
    @63256325N 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for that glimpse into the past.

  • @pnwRC.
    @pnwRC. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!

  • @jekillhyde1253
    @jekillhyde1253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating footage & narration
    Personally I edmire those people even though they aren't around anymore

  • @nunstersplace
    @nunstersplace 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My grandfather would sharpen his own blades every night. He was a bucker in the Humbolt area where they were they were logging redwoods. He lived out of his truck with a camper set up.

  • @matthewdufur5489
    @matthewdufur5489 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you ever get a chance to hike in the West Coast wildness area's the old growth trees will impress you. Mt. Lassen has some truly amazing old growth tress along the Pacific Crest Trail that only costs five or six miles of hiking to enjoy. There are several other wilderness area's of the PCT that impress but Mt. Lassen has some beauty's.

  • @zechthompson7688
    @zechthompson7688 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s crazy the size of those logs!!

  • @imransharif443
    @imransharif443 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very nice good old picture & video beautiful

  • @matthewoffenbacher6548
    @matthewoffenbacher6548 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Amazing! Even the photography in those early photos must have been quite a chore given the bulkiness of cameras during that period.

  • @garryperrin2408
    @garryperrin2408 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Terrific footage and presentation. Thank you!

  • @Wedget
    @Wedget 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Excellent video, I am an Aussie raised in the timber industry and to this day stills run through my veins.

  • @howardkettner
    @howardkettner 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow. Super informative. Huge thanks for the thoughtful and fascinating detail

  • @ddf414
    @ddf414 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Good documentary!

  • @augustusshook2881
    @augustusshook2881 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This job is not for any body. I drove a log truck back in these mountains of east Tennessee and south west Virginia. You can get hurt bad or killed real fast. I really liked my job and had a lot of fun with the loggers. More times than one I took doughnuts to the loggers and they loved it. More than one time they let me load out first...lol..Thank You for the video brings back many thoughts of back in the day.

  • @prepperjonpnw6482
    @prepperjonpnw6482 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At 1:50 the picture of a sled piled high with logs being pulled by horses isn’t from the west coast its from Michigan when they were clearing almost all of the white pine forest.

  • @mendokane
    @mendokane 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very well done I thoroughly enjoyed this,thanks

  • @liwmld
    @liwmld 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    legacy indeed! this is a fascinating video of a fascinating industry. hard workers. you could see the pride on their faces of a job well done in those early photos. i bet they slept well at night with insomnia nary a problem. the Bible says in Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

  • @JS-oy6nn
    @JS-oy6nn ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video 👏🏻 bravo 👏🏻

  • @northern9124
    @northern9124 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    GREATvid to watch!!!

  • @michellepugh2859
    @michellepugh2859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video. BC sure has some absolutely beautiful country that's for sure!!

  • @yannchevrier-foundy5063
    @yannchevrier-foundy5063 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow! great documentary!

  • @joesutherland225
    @joesutherland225 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A coastal hand faller is still a Damm hard man they work where machines can't hard terrain in shit conditions most of the year

  • @midbc1midbc199
    @midbc1midbc199 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I was working in a sawmill we would cut about 2 million board feet of lumber a day

  • @georgecalder5175
    @georgecalder5175 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thankyou for this, very cool

  • @khadijagwen
    @khadijagwen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We were the first owners after the Homesteaders of a farm at Ladd Hill, Oregon. It had been 160 acres but was cut up and we bought 57 acres in 1950. Most of it was still second growth woods, but the stumps from many of the original trees were still there. Many were 8' or more in diameter and still had the chopped in holes where the lumberjacks put their planks to stand on while they cut the tree down with axes, and misery whips.
    In those days, it was normal to see three log loads on the gas log trucks, with some of them holding a single log. These days, the logs that were left in the woods as trash are all you see on the trucks.
    Now days, in Oregon, when the land is logged, it must be planted within a year. They still log off woodland tree farms, but most of it is regulated such that there will always be mature trees to harvest.

    • @philandtaniahumphries5856
      @philandtaniahumphries5856 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Boy... does that take me back!!
      Worked as a whistle punk on several islands on the West Coast for Parbac Logging. Ended up setting chokers up an down the west coast and spent a short spell bucking logs in Alice Lake. Still have my old cork boots that I wore for many years... made by Woods in Vancouver, I recall. Great video of how it really was in the old days!

    • @arnenelson4495
      @arnenelson4495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's normal now to see 25 to 30 "logs" on a truck. Pecker poles.

    • @odiltm259
      @odiltm259 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arnenelson4495 it’s actually easier for lumber mills to process similarly sized smaller trees. it’s easier to maneuver and generally deal with them compared to the giant lumber of the past.

  • @randlerichardson5826
    @randlerichardson5826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It’s amazing how they got the huge logs out of the woods

  • @lesliemackenzie7226
    @lesliemackenzie7226 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved it,only thing missing is the balloon. Port Eliza,circa 1995

  • @obfuscated3090
    @obfuscated3090 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Shay power delivery arrangement is similar to how a 4x4 truck equalizes power delivery between forward and rear and right and left. It was an intelligent design.

  • @davidregan9872
    @davidregan9872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Grays Harbor Washington had huge trees back in the day. I wonder if those loggers ever came across Sasquatch?

  • @chucktheperson1063
    @chucktheperson1063 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Much respect for those who came before me. A tough job done by tough people.

  • @JoeyRicard
    @JoeyRicard 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Absolutely fantastic video!

  • @skycaptain3095
    @skycaptain3095 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I once found a pocket watch in the hollow of a logged stump as a kid. Had the initials J.P. Seymour on it but I've never found the the descendants to return it to.

  • @jacksak
    @jacksak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent. Thank you.

  • @Peterbilt359
    @Peterbilt359 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My great grandfather built a mill in boulder UT it had a giant water wheel to power it. My grandfather father worked it and my dad worked there as kid. I was hauling out of mill in panguitch UT, spotted an old 2 man saw by shed, few years later they shut it down. Old boss called me said your only one who liked that saw you want it, I said yep. I still have it 30 years later in shed. It's 7 feet long. I have a collection of logging antiques including 2 man hand saw in my living room. I still cut trees but just to clear for new sites. Long ways from great grandpa.

  • @jeanhawken4482
    @jeanhawken4482 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Are any of the big logs left.

  • @richardtuholsky4028
    @richardtuholsky4028 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Let’s go brandon

  • @benitourtiaga1964
    @benitourtiaga1964 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    23:38 IMPRESIONANTE!!!!!!!! DIOS LOS BENDIGA A LOS LEÑADORES QUE TRABAJARON CON TANTO ESFUERZO Y EFICIENCIA!!!! APRENDAN POLITICOS Y EMPRESARIOS EXPLOTADORES!!!!!!!

  • @richardnault-smithson321
    @richardnault-smithson321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Paul, can you imagin a poker game where everything is on the line.You gotta have big cahunas.These guys were beasts.love them.Live long and prosper. Peace Out Rich

  • @aaronlamb8601
    @aaronlamb8601 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i have spent time looking at old famly photos of my granddad dad we all have logged to see all this old pic and filems take me back to my younger days

  • @isbcornbinder
    @isbcornbinder 11 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A good read is the coauthored book called UNION JACK. The book tells of the IWA times of Jack Monroe and the part that he played in making safety in the woods more important than profit. The death toll from the lack of safety was shocking and the men who worked in the woods were wasted in the hundreds for profit. Sadly, Jack has died but his legacy of WORKSAFE BC will live on and the working life of all persons is safer for him having passed this way.

    • @derrickguppy149
      @derrickguppy149 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bob Smith q

    • @griggbaylee5808
      @griggbaylee5808 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya but I’ll always remember jack not calling a strike for the loggers( even though they had voted to strike) to support the pulp and sawmill workers in the mid seventies, lots of secret deals going on back then

  • @daviddebergh254
    @daviddebergh254 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Anyone else love the music? I played it as I drove a semi through Maine

    • @HubertofLiege
      @HubertofLiege ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s talent, how did you shift?

  • @sharonmehaffey5539
    @sharonmehaffey5539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My father was killed logging by a falling limb near Seaside, Oregon in 1945 when I was 3 years old.

    • @dougmcaree2318
      @dougmcaree2318 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Widow makers..rip

    • @josephm.noviello1996
      @josephm.noviello1996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Knew a guy who was bucking a 5 foot fir. He was catapulted up into the air when a green fir hooter limb fell out of another tree. That limb was 1 foot in diameter and 10 feet long. Missed this guy by 3 feet. They figuerd it fell 100 feet. The bucker didn't even know what happened till it was all over. It was not his time
      to die that day.

  • @JodyRooney-j8l
    @JodyRooney-j8l 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Was that Utah Phillips singing???

  • @ВладимирЕрмоленко-ы3и
    @ВладимирЕрмоленко-ы3и 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Спасибо. Интересный фильм.
    К нему бы ещё и перевод, о-ооо....👍✌

  • @donaldfuller5041
    @donaldfuller5041 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was there talk of Sasquatch being sighted from these early loggers?

    • @griggbaylee5808
      @griggbaylee5808 ปีที่แล้ว

      No the squatch usually hung around the beer parlour on payday

  • @josephdeffendoll3056
    @josephdeffendoll3056 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    McMillan Blodel is a huge company in the logging industry. Air,land and sea.

  • @danielc9501
    @danielc9501 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video!!!! thanks

  • @teresaarvidson44
    @teresaarvidson44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very good

  • @Huskrrrr
    @Huskrrrr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I live in Magalia, Ca. Formerly named Dogtown. A wild Gold mining and logging town.

  • @jamesarcher1992
    @jamesarcher1992 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very intersting thankyou :-) Learnt alot

  • @stefaneriksson7741
    @stefaneriksson7741 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely fantastic thank you!

  • @fomocomofo5694
    @fomocomofo5694 ปีที่แล้ว

    What song is that at about 6:50

  • @timothysullivan4130
    @timothysullivan4130 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am a retired arborist & these MEN are as TOUGH as they come. The work is HARD & DANGEROUS.

  • @Whiskeybuisness
    @Whiskeybuisness 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    At 16:00......That was a wreck that I would love to hear the explanation of.....How the heck did that happen???

    • @kurtvonfricken6829
      @kurtvonfricken6829 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      Booze..........

    • @matthewoffenbacher6548
      @matthewoffenbacher6548 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ....there are a lot of old photos showing one train engine atop another from head on collisions ....in the early years of locomotives, reliable, if any breaking power was not initially engineered.

  • @jeffreyrubish347
    @jeffreyrubish347 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    33:30 tree being felled looks like they put it right on a stump resulting in splitting of the trunk despite the chain binding on it.

    • @garethjones5279
      @garethjones5279 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jeffrey Rubish
      I think maybe the chain binds are to hold together a very rotten tree in able to get direction and stop it barber chairing on them possibly. It splits like it’s rotten any and the heart wood looks very soft. Good observation.

    • @vf12497439
      @vf12497439 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not sure about all that, big old red cedar with a rotten core. Might as well bust it up there before the scalers at the mill grade all the defects to the point you payed them to take it.

  • @johnhirtle4300
    @johnhirtle4300 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sad to see magnificent trees destroyed, but the men that did the work were a breed unlike anything we know now, and were doing a tough, dangerous job providing the timber to build a nation as best as they were able 👍👍👍

  • @galacticwizard5442
    @galacticwizard5442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have photos of my great grandfather logging in the 1920s/30s in Oregon and Washington.

  • @abelpadilla7789
    @abelpadilla7789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My hat off to all the loggers of the early times when men where men . Thank you.

  • @cobrellie
    @cobrellie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely great video ...

  • @KowboyUSA
    @KowboyUSA 10 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Everyone loves wood products but hates logging.

    • @midniterambler59
      @midniterambler59 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I wouldn't say that. It is the ignorant and uninformed that have an unfounded bias against logging. Sustainable and responsible logging practices have come a long way since the early days of logging. What is left of old growth should be protected forever and raw-log export should be stopped. Value-added must remain in Canada and the US!!

    • @rotam8680
      @rotam8680 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      cut down old growth and let new growth flourish

    • @EdithMildred
      @EdithMildred 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      everyone loves hotdogs, but hates grinding up slaughterhouse scraps. everyone loves medicine, but hates studying chemistry or doing eight years of school after high school. everyone loves their own ideas, but hates other ideas. everyone says stupid stuff on youtube. everyone loves to eat, but hates having their poop around. just because we like something doesn't mean we can't question and change the processes that get those things to us. everyone loves food bu thates growing their own. everyone likes houses but hate building their own by hand. your statement was too simple.

    • @EdithMildred
      @EdithMildred 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      rota m8 we did mate, did you watch this video?

  • @robertstroh4803
    @robertstroh4803 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was great !!!! Does anyone know about the rubber tired skidder at 30:50 ? It looks like it has double drum
    on top,

  • @dogwedl1167
    @dogwedl1167 ปีที่แล้ว +1

  • @johnacord5664
    @johnacord5664 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had an Army buddy who worked the logging camps of northern Michigan and Sothern Caneda. Get a few drinks in him. He could tell you things that would stand your hair on end.

  • @Lavvvs
    @Lavvvs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What’s the song at the end ?